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Title Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania / edited by Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin & Isaria N. Kimambo.

Publication Info. London : James Curry ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Eastern African studies
Eastern African studies (London, England)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
Contents Introduction : custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania / James Giblin & Gregory Maddox -- pt. 1. Environmental & demographic change -- Introduction -- 1. Population : a dependent variable / Juhani Koponen -- 2. Environment & population growth in Ugogo, Central Tanzania -- pt. 2. Environmental change & economic history in Tanzania's northern highlands -- Introduction -- 3. Environmental control & hunger in the mountains & plains of northeastern Tanzania / Isaria N. Kimambo -- 4. Nature reorganized : ecological history in the plateau forests of the west Usambara Mountains, 1850-1935 / Christopher Conte -- pt. 3. Politics & environmental change -- Introduction -- 5. Precolonial politics of disease control in the lowlands of northeastern Tanzania / James L. Giblin -- 6. 'We don't want terraces' : protest & identity under the Uluguru land usage scheme / Pamela A. Maack -- pt. 4. Environment & mortality -- Introduction -- 7. Environment, community & history : 'nature in the mind' in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buha, western Tanzania / Michele Wagner -- 8. Canoe-building under colonialism : forestry & food policies in the inner Kilombero Valley, 1920-40 / Jamie Monson -- 9. Struggles for the land : the political & moral economies of land on Mount Meru / Thomas Spear -- Conclusion/ Isaria N. Kimambo.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Human ecology -- Tanzania -- History.
Human ecology.
Tanzania.
History.
Environmental policy -- Tanzania.
Environmental policy.
Environmental protection -- Tanzania.
Environmental protection.
Tanzania -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Tanzania -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Tanzania -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Indexed Term Culture Related to Environment History
Tanzania
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Maddox, Gregory.
Giblin, James Leonard.
Kimambo, Isaria N.
Other Form: Print version: Custodians of the land. London : James Curry ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996 0821411330 (DLC) 95022932 (OCoLC)32892268
ISBN 058507688X (electronic book)
9780585076881 (electronic book)
0821411330
0821411349
0852557256
0852557248
9780821411339 (cloth)
9780821411346 (paperback)
9780852557259 (cased)
9780852557242 (paperback)